Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity

Truth Attending Persuasion.- Gorgias and the Weakness of Logos.- Reasoning without Reasons - Gorgias, Isocrates and Plato's Concept of Reasoning and Argumentation.- Argumentation and Persuasion in Classical Chinese Literature.- βραχυλογία Sophistic, Platonic, Aristotelian.- The Trouble of Hosting a Debate: Callicles' Anger and Socrates' Lack of Manners.- Dialectic and Argumentation in Plato's Dialogues.- What a god of refutation knows: Elegchos and dialektike in Plato's Sophist.- The Prospects of Rhetoric in the Late Platonic Dialogues.- Platonic Epagōgē and the 'Purification' of the Method of Collection.- Evaluation and Truth in Topics 8.11.- Endoxa and Epistemology in Aristotle.- Sextus on Argumentation: Dialectic, Therapy and Inquiry.- Seneca's Epistemological Critique of Zeno's Dialectic.- Was Aristotle a Virtue Argumentation Theorist?.- Aristotelian Dialectic and Formal Dialogue Systems for Argumentation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030708160
• ISBN13: 9783030708160
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"